00:02okay let's get right to this a statement just relief released from the detroit lions i will
00:08read in its entirety under the heading statement from jack campbell my family and i want to
00:15sincerely thank everyone for the overwhelming amount of love prayers and support we've received
00:19over the past few days it means more to us than words can express i'm incredibly encouraged by
00:25the progress i've made in such a short period of time i have full movement in my lower body and
00:30i'm
00:31continuing to make progress with movement in my upper body i know there's still work ahead but i
00:35remain very optimistic i'm taking things one day at a time staying positive and focusing on getting
00:41better my faith in god has never been stronger i know he has a plan for me and i trust
00:45in that plan
00:46i know there may be challenges ahead but with my faith my family and so many people in my corner
00:51i know we'll get through this i especially want to thank the athletic trainers and medical
00:55personnel who responded and cared for me on the field i know those were difficult moments and i'm
01:00incredibly grateful for the professionalism compassion and care you showed me the way you
01:05handled everything and looked after me when i needed it most is something i'll never forget
01:09from the bottom of my heart thank you i also can't say enough about the incredible care i've received
01:14from the medical team at henry ford hospital and the detroit lions medical staff they've been amazing to
01:20me and my family throughout this process and i'm truly grateful for everything they've done to my
01:25teammates coaches and everyone in the lions organization i want you to know how much i love
01:29and appreciate you this team is family to me and the way everyone has been there for me means
01:35everything i'm proud to be a detroit lion and couldn't ask to be surrounded by a better group of
01:39people one thing i've learned about detroit is this city is built on toughness resilience and grit
01:44that's exactly how i'm going to approach this challenge please continue to keep me and my family and
01:50your prayers we feel the love and i can't thank everyone enough god is good my faith is strong
01:55jack campbell well that's awesome news um to see that he is on the road to recovery now
02:02and the movement full movement in the lower body is great regaining feeling in the upper body is
02:09is it very encouraging uh nothing but the best yeah um look the first thing that everybody cares about
02:21most is that this person who's you know you feel like you know even though we most people we don't
02:29but they didn't you know have i mean the the thought is at first you could you you're scared that
02:37you
02:37might be seeing the worst on play out on the football field and it sounds as though this is
02:44trending in the right direction movement back in his legs continuing to make progress with movement in
02:50the upper body and that's you know that hurdle of hoping that a person could go on and live their
02:56life
02:58is certainly foremost and everyone's thoughts um as far as you know the football aspect of this
03:06i mean i care significantly less about that because this is the snapback to reality that these are games
03:12there are escapes and they serve a purpose in all of our lives but when somebody has a
03:20serious injury for our entertainment you you kind of go whoa all right step back who cares about the
03:26games um the the thing about jack campbell that always stand out to me is there was no holdout
03:34there was no bitter negotiations and that's not to say people who hold out are bad people i'm not i
03:39don't want to imply that or this to be misconstrued but this is a player that came to the city
03:45of
03:45detroit we're not the most exotic of locales here right and and embraced being a detroit lion
03:55to the point where when he when his contract some of the questions around his contract i
04:00i remember there being hey couldn't you have gotten more money and he's like yeah i'm i'm fine
04:05yeah i mean he's still paid very well yes
04:10yeah it's look this guy means a lot to this organization uh a key part of of this team
04:18moving forward don't know if he's ever going to play football again don't care just glad to hear
04:25that he is you know not only alive and breathing but that he's getting movement back and all the
04:29extremities and lower body ahead of the upper body but everything sounds like it's it's going in a really
04:35good direction for him and that's that's awesome so there is the latest and you know having not heard
04:42anything for so long um but if he's continuing to make progress with the upper body then great i mean
04:50that is it's a relief that some semblance of carrying on and having a normal life are still ahead for
04:58jack
04:58campbell and um like i said a reset and focusing on what's most important so there is the very latest
05:06248-539-9797 phone calls feedback if you want to get into that also we had the sound from albert
05:16breer talking about what dan campbell might be considering tarik woolen and mike sanristal there's
05:23nothing here that would from the jack campbell statement that would lead us to believe on a far
05:27less important scale that they need to not go out and acquire a linebacker so i would imagine that's
05:33on the radar as well still uh what do we got here six days to the trade deadline so uh
05:38that is top of
05:39mind sports wise but certainly the jack campbell news and if you're just joining us a statement has
05:44been released he's got movement in his legs continues to work on movement in the upper body but he's making
05:50progress so that would imply better and better each day and that certainly is foremost on all of our
05:58thoughts scary scary moment that just sucks the life out of a stadium and and really has that solid
06:05reset hard hard to celebrate a win a huge win for a team that desperately needed it when you have
06:14overriding concerns about the health and well-being of of a player and we all witnessed it and that makes
06:20it that makes it even tougher so uh we'll get to your phone calls and feedback coming up um more
06:26more uh on jack campbell as it becomes available over the next uh days and and weeks it's karshen
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